Pro Multithreading and Memory Management for iOS and OS X: with ARC, Grand Central Dispatch, and Blocks
Book Details
Author(s)Kazuki Sakamoto, Tomohiko Furumoto
PublisherApress
ISBN / ASINB009IXN0R0
ISBN-13978B009IXN0R3
MarketplaceIndia 🇮🇳
Description
If you want to develop efficient, smooth-running applications, controlling concurrency and memory are vital. Automatic Reference Counting is Apple's game-changing memory management system, new to Xcode 4.2. Pro Multithreading and Memory Management for iOS and OS X shows you how ARC works and how best to incorporate it into your applications. Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) and blocks are key to developing great apps, allowing you to control threads for maximum performance.
If for you, multithreading is an unsolved mystery and ARC is unexplored territory, then this is the book you'll need to make these concepts clear and send you on your way to becoming a master iOS and OS X developer.
- What are blocks? How are they used with GCD?
- Multithreading with GCD
- Managing objects with ARC
What you’ll learn
- How to use blocks
- How blocks work and how they are implemented
- Details about GCD
- How and when to use GCD
- To understand ARC technology and how to use it
Who this book is for
This book is for professional OS X and iOS application programmers. In particular, it's for those who want to develop highly responsive applications with concurrent programming.More Books by Kazuki Sakamoto, Tomohiko Furumoto
